About the job

Public sector agencies, utilities and large health systems licence our asset management platform under multi-year contracts. Product, engineering and support teams work out of offices in London, England and two nearshore delivery centres.

Position summary

The Partner Integrations team owns services that process several million requests a day. We need another engineer who is comfortable owning them in production. Brambleloft is hiring for the Backend Developer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. Our headquarters is in London, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. Employment is through our payroll partner in Sri Lanka. Salary is paid monthly in Sri Lankan rupees. Core hours are 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM UK time. A stable internet connection and a backup power option are required.

Key responsibilities

Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.
Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
Document APIs in OpenAPI and keep the docs current.
Coordinate with frontend and mobile engineers on API contracts and versioning.
Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
Tune slow queries, add indexes and read query plans.

Minimum qualifications

3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.
Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
Familiarity with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.

Nice to have

Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.
Terraform or Pulumi.

Rate: LKR 670,000 - LKR 770,000 per month

Why work with us

Performance bonus.
Paid sick days.
Wellness allowance.
Two weeks of paid leave at year end.
Home office setup budget.

We will only contact shortlisted applicants.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Brambleloft.